Nation's First Cybersecurity 'Spy Center' Breaks Ground

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Construction will soon begin on the nation’s first cybersecurity
headquarters, a $1.5 billion facility which already being billed
as the “Spy Center.”

Located in Camp Williams, Utah, the Community Comprehensive
National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center – known as the
Utah Data Center – will address critical issues of
national cybersecurity, compiling what Utah’s
Deseret News called “dizzying volumes of data for the
intelligence community.”

Given the recent high-profile incidents of national and
international cybercrime -- including WikiLeaks, the
Stuxnet worm and China’s “Aurora” project -- the
U.S. government sees the Utah Data Center as a potential
crucial component in battling these technological threats.

The Deseret News reported that a White House document identified
the Utah Data Center as addressing “one of the most serious
economic and national
security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a
government or as a country are not adequately prepared to
counter.”

Groundbreaking on the project occurred yesterday (Jan. 6), and
construction is set to be completed by October 2013. The Utah
Data Center is expected to employ 100 to 200 security
professionals.